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We estimate that the euro has increased trade within the eurozone by about 26 percent and trade between the eurozone … significant and substantial effects on the extensive margin of trade. The euro effects were concentrated to semi-finished and …
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The foreign debts of the European countries are at the core of the current crises. Generally, the crises are attributed to government budget deficits in excess of the values stated in the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)/Maastricht treaty. Proposals for reform generally involve increasing the...
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this result in a dynamic general equilibrium model where market participants have heterogeneous liquidity needs and where … money market rate and the volumes traded at the ECB's deposit and lending facilities in response to the recent financial …
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Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
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This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
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The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary monetary and fiscal policies is the hysteresis of...
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analysis is that since T2 imbalances were caused by a sudden stop and are unlikely to grow without bounds since Euro area CA …
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We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union …. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors … countries over 1985-2006 to quantify the contributions of the pure Balassa-Samuelson effect and those of market regulations in …
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of Euro–area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest–rate setting behavior in response to … standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is that the pass–through from changes in the money market rate to …
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variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see De Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We … between senior tranche lending – including Target2 balances – and recent developments in the sovereign bond market, both …
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